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Patented Jan. 18,1881.

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NJFFEIS, PHOTO-L ITMOQRAHIR. WASHINGTON. DV C* UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

GEORGE E. "GOODING AND EUGENE H. TAYLOR, OF LYNN, MASS.

EDGE-BEVELING TOOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 236,801, dated January 18, 1881. Application filed May 17, 1880. (Model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, GEORGE E. GooDING and EUGENE H. TAYLOR, both of Lynn, county of Essex, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Edge Beveling Tools, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

This invention relates to cd ge-bevelin g tools for boot and shoe work, and has forits object the production of a simple and eicient edgebeveling tool in Iwhich the lip or surface that travels on the top of the sole or other thing to be edge-beveled and the edge of the bevelingcutter are made adjustable the one with rela. tion to the other in the arc of a circle, to increase or decrease the distance or space between the said parts back from their front ends that travel in the rand-crease or between the weltor sole and upper, according to the thickness of the triangular strip to be removed from the sole or other thing, the front ends of the gage and cutter in the rand-crease always remaining coincident under all adjustments of the tool, as will be hereinafter described.

Figure l represents one of our bevelingtools in top view, the handle for the head being omitted; Fig. 2, an under-side view; Fig. 3, an elevation of the side edge of the tool; Fig. 4, a section on the line x x, Fig. 2 Fig. 5, a detached view of the cutter; Fig. 6, details ofthe gage; and Fig. 7, a detail to show, on an enlarged scale, the relative positions of the edge of the lip and cutter, to represent the triangular space between them, through which the piece removed from the sole passes, which space is made of proper size by adjustment, as hereinafter described. Figs. 8 and 9 are top and edge views of a modified form of tool.

The head a of the tool has projecting from its front end a lip, b, provided with a guard, c, preferably rounded, as at 2, Fig. 3, to readily follow in the rand-crease and prevent the front end of the cutter d from touching the upper. This cutter d, of usual shape, is shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 7 as attached by a screw, c, to a block, f,'having.pivotbearings g, represented as headed. screws extended through slots h in lugs tof the head. The rear side of this block has an ear, 3, slotted to receive withinit and be engaged by an adjusting device, k, shown as a screw, by which the said block may be turned positively about its pivot-bearings g in the arc of a circle substantiallyT at right angles to the axis e of the cutter a, to increase or decrease the distance or width of the space l2 between the edge ofthe cutter and the said lip next the gaging-surface Z, (see Fig. 7,) to increase or decrease the thickness of the outer edge of the triangular strip to be removed from the sole.

It is obvious that the range of adjustment, and the consequent greater control of the thickness of the outer edge of the said strip to be removed, is gained by permitting the pivot-bearin gs for the block to be raised or lowered in the slotted lugs t'. These pivotbearings, made as screws with heads, may be slackened when the block is to be raised or lowered with relation to the head, and then again tightened to fix the pivots of the block.

The edge-gage m, provided with elongated slots 5, is adj ustably attached by screws 6 with the block f, so as to be moved toward and from the guard c, that is to run in the rand-crease, to thus control the width of the strip to be removed.

Figs. 8 and 9 show a modified form of' beveling-tool, wherein the lip b is adjustably attached to the head a by means of two screws, 7 8, extended through slots in the shank n, from which the said lip projects, to enable it to have all the pivotal adjustment before stated as being provided for the block fand its attached cutter.

The cutter shown in Figs. 8 and 9 is held upon the head and made adjustable thereon only toward and from the lip, to provide for keeping the front edge of the cutter in proper cutting position.

l. As an improved article of manufacture, an edge-beveling tool for leather-Work, containing a lip and guard, c, and a cutter, made adjustable with relation to each other in the arc of a circle at right angles to the axis of the cutter, whereby the front edge of the cutter and guardare kept in line to detach the inner edge of the strip to be removed, while IOO In testimony whereof we have signed our zo names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEO. E. GOODING. EUGENE H. TAYLOR.

Witnesses:

IRA B. KEITH, WILLIAM PHINNEY. 

